Climate Finance Specialist
The Nature Conservancy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per year
About the role
- Develop the non-grant-based components of GCF projects, primarily focused on debt and risk mitigation mechanisms.
- This includes deal sourcing, drafting of Idea Notes, Concept Notes, applications for Project Preparation Facility funding, and Funding Proposals.
- It encompasses supporting the development of the feasibility studies, economic and financial analysis, Theory of Change (ToC), safeguards, logical framework, budget and other components of the funding proposal.
- Hire and oversee consultants contracted to support the project development process.
- Draft or supervise the drafting of key deal documents, including financial models, term sheets, and lending and on-lending agreements.
- Advise and build capacity in TNC country programs, government counterparts, and other partners on innovative financing structures for GCF projects, including the funding process and compliance rules.
- Guide and support potential Executing Entities throughout project development and implementation.
- Provide project management for NGI development workstreams and lead or support training, capacity building and other workshops, consultations and country visits with relevant stakeholders, including governments, Nationally Designated Authorities and local partners.
- Lead the review of proposal documents to ensure technical quality and alignment with country, GCF and TNC strategies and policies.
- Provide feedback and direction on drafts and respond to feedback from the GCF and other actors.
- Help identify and source the necessary co-financing, engaging with various public and private sector investors and collaborating with IFM's Capital Raising team.
- Maintain an understanding of current GCF policies and priorities and apply them in TNC’s GCF proposals, ensuring compliance with donor priorities and regulations.
- Persuasively communicate complex finance, investment, and market concepts to internal and external stakeholders with diverse backgrounds.
- Lead oversight and implementation of loan-based components of the projects for TNC’s GCF Unit.
- Support the development and implementation of tools, processes, and capacity building materials on GCF project development and implementation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years’ experience in a private sector environment, such as management consulting and investment banking, or with a leading conservation organization or government entity, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience designing, structuring and managing large scale debt products, preferably for GCF or other public funders and with exposure to climate issues.
- Deep knowledge of financial institutions, including community, commercial, development, sovereign or investment banks and their approaches to loan origination, underwriting, on-lending and risk assessment.
- Knowledge of environmental and social management systems within financial institutions
- Experience negotiating complex agreements and working with teams across the organization as well as externally.
- Experience with current and evolving sustainable finance and ESG trends.
- Experience with blended finance or non-grant financial instruments in climate change projects, private-public partnerships and/or engagement with private sector entities to achieve positive climate change outcomes.
- Experience directly managing large-scale, multi-stakeholder projects to deliver a financial product or other outcome.
Benefits
- Health care benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match
- Parental leave
- Accrued paid time off
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Other life and work well-being benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingdebt structuringrisk assessmenteconomic analysisfinancial analysisproject managementnegotiationcapacity buildingcompliancesafeguards
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationadvisorypersuasionorganizationaltrainingconsultationfeedbackstakeholder engagement